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Start by marking “Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikistan” as Want to Read: Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikistan by. Colette Harris. · Rating details · 7 ratings · 0 reviews/5(7). Control and Subversion makes an important contribution to the study of Muslim societies in general, while also being a unique study of a neglected area – post-Soviet Tajikistan – a country gaining increasing importance in the international arena of Central Asia. The book presents an intimate view of this society, told through ethnographically collected life histories, unusually including 4/5(1). Control and Subversion makes an important contribution to the study of Muslim societies in general, while also being a unique study of a neglected area – post-Soviet Tajikistan – a country gaining increasing importance in the international arena of Central Asia. The book presents an intimate view of this society, told through ethnographically collected life histories, unusually including men’s as well as .

Colette Harris, SOAS University of London, Development Studies Department, Faculty Member. based on ethnographic materials collected in Tajikistan in the late s, melds cross-cultural psychologies, (feminist) ethnography, sexualities and gender studies. Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikistan more. by Colette Harris. Harris, Colette Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikistan London and Virginia: Pluto Press pp. £ (hardback) £ (paperback) Academic interest in the experiences of Central Asian women increased dramatically after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and there have since appeared numerous accounts of gendered oppression in these societies. However, with a few. Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikistan (Anthropology, Culture and Society) by Colette Harris (2).

CATHERINE RYMPH Department of History, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA Colette Harris, Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikistan (London: Pluto Press, ), pp. x + ISBN (hb); (pb). Gender relations in Soviet and post-Soviet Tajikistan are the focus of this investigation by Colette Harris. Colette Harris, Pluto Press, London, Sterling and Virginia, , ISBN Tajikistan stands out among the republics of Central Asia for two important reasons. First, as the republic where the sovieticization process was least successful, it managed to retain its Islamic identity and culture. Control and Subversion makes an important contribution to the study of Muslim societies in general, while also being a unique study of a neglected area – post-Soviet Tajikistan – a country gaining increasing importance in the international arena of Central Asia. The book presents an intimate view of this society, told through ethnographically collected life histories, unusually including men’s as well as women’s.